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Hello Fellow Soapers - I'm making what seems like a pretty basic HP batch and it is volcanoing for some reason. Any ideas?

I "made" the attached recipe today (see Recipe2.jpg). I carefully measured the oils and placed them in the crock pot which was on low. I waited until all the solid oils had melted and then poured the lye water in. Everything looked good at that point. I immersed the stick blender and turned it...

I designed the attached recipe using the SoapMaking Friend calculator. The "Recipe Properties" bar graph shows all green - everything looked good on paper. However, when I actually made the batch it went from liquid to a near-solid paste within a few seconds (literally) of adding the lye water...

I've made around 15 batches of HP soap over the past year. This past weekend I made a batch of CP soap for the first time. It set up just fine overnight and I cut it into bars the next morning. This soap looks and feels just like my HP soap does at this point (which would then be ready to use)...

I'd really like to order the set of 8 colorants offerred by selectshades.com but I can't figure out how to order them. When I click on Basic 8 Sets I get a page that says "no products found". When I call the telephone number I get a generic sounding answering machine. Has anyone ordered from...

This is the 2nd batch of HP soap I've made. I built a hex shaped mold out of wood and hinges and covered with heat resistant mylar (10 mil thick). The soap really stuck to the mylar though and I had to use quite a bit of force to separate the column of soap from the mold causing me to...

I'm new to soap making and have a couple of questions: 1) I've used the Tea Tree and Cedar EOs both from Brambleberry.com. I used 1.5 oz of each of those in a 3 lb batch. I added them near the end of a HP recipe (it was a 5% SF recipe). The soap ended up smelling pretty nice. The Tea Tree...